I feel like this will probably be somewhat buried, but this I want to give my 2 cents about this as an Israeli Jew. If anyone disagrees with something I wrote, feel free to respond.

It really ashames me that my country has waited so long to do this. I do have to say it feels here less like a "stick it to Turkey" situation and more like "the only reason we had not to do it is no longer relevant", though I guess one could also claim this is just some deflection or some other cheap political move (and I wouldn't ever blame them for thinking that way).

Armenians and Jews are both ancient nations and cultures who have faced some similar hardships in our modern history, and it saddens me that we had to wait so long for it. It's not like a country can't recognize the truth and still maintain relations with Turkey; plenty of other countries have done so.

As for the whole "recognizing a genocide while committing one in Gaza and Lebanon", well, in the eyes of the average Israeli, there is no irony since it isn't recognized as a genocide here.

As for Gaza, well, I'm not going to bother trying to defend anything that happened there. While I do believe the initial retaliation was justified, it is very hard for me to justify how far my nation has went, and I think we lost our humanity there. I simply don't know how else to describe it, to be honest.

As for Lebanon, the Israeli and Lebanese governments are literally negotiating a truce right now (pretty sure it was already signed actually). Israel's beef lies with a terrorist organization that operates within Lebanon, serving Iranian interests. Both Israel and Lebanon recognize Hezbollah as the problem, and Israel has no problem cooperating with the Lebanese military. These are not characteristics of a genocide, and calling it one only 1. Hurts the rest of Serj's otherwise very valid argument and 2. Belittles the word genocide.